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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

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  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Photocells
  • Safety gloves
  • Mainframe computers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Ammeters
  • Polarimeters
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Drying pistols
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Laboratory balances
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Ruby lasers
  • Prisms
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Graphing calculators
  • Dye lasers
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Safety showers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Photo detectors
  • Turbidimeters
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Lecture bottles
  • Monochromators
  • Filter pumps
  • McLeod gauges
  • Finger pumps
  • Water aspirators
  • Metering pumps
  • Steam baths
  • Lasers
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Pressure gauges
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Dessicators
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Pull spring balances
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Automatic burets
  • Autotitrators
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Tension gauges
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Hot air blowers
  • Nebulizers
  • Comparators
  • Sample crushers
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Cooling baths
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Mercury barometers
  • Glass tubing
  • Bell jars
  • Flame photometers
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Distilling condensers
  • Capillary tubing
  • Buchner funnels
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Desktop computers
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Reaction flasks
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Thermocouples
  • Safety glasses
  • pH indicators
  • Coulometers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Rotameters
  • Homogenizers
  • Polarizers
  • Glass burets
  • Cork borer sets
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Hydrometers
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • U-tube manometers
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Pycnometers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Reflux condensers
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Pirani gauges
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Personal computers
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Triple beam balances
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Differential refractometers
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Torsion balances
  • Gas burners
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Canister gas masks
  • Single-pan balances
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Infrared lamps
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Ball mills
  • Molecular stills
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Westphal balances
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Claisen flasks
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Rheometers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Voltmeters
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Safety goggles
  • Agitation tanks
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Face shields
  • Utility clamps
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Lyophilizers
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Fluorimeters
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Multimeters
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Radiation detectors
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Velometers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Viscosity meters
  • Heating mantles
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Test tube clamps
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Ionization gauges
  • Meker burners
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Immersion heaters
  • Titrators
  • Differential scanning calorimeters

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